Analyze Sheet Music for Bass Guitar in E

Video Transcript

"RYAN LARSON: So now we're going to go through and analyze our piece today. And we're going to start off just by taking a look at it so we zoom in. We have here 4-8-12-16-18 bars and you want to write that down at home if you don't have manuscript paper you can just write lines like this and make sure you have 18 brackets and you want to fill in the chords and here we start with an E minor, so that's our i right where the key E but notice it's not a major chord it's not always going to be a major chord so you're going to have to deal with that. So i and we notate that with a Roman numeral right, there's your lowercase Roman numeral for minor and then we have G so that's E, F, G that's a 3 right but it's a minor chord and it's not a G sharp right we have E, F sharp, G sharp on our scale notes so that's a regular G so we're taking it down from a G sharp so that's a flat iii. So we have our i to our flat iii and now if we look at our base to find those root notes, so we're going to zoom in on the bass here. There's your E right there's your i and if we go up 1-2-3 but we have to take it down a notch 'cause it's flat right so we got this note so we have E, there's our i to our flat iii and those are our roots. And we can start; we can even start by doing a little Bossa in there which go 1 to 5. And your 5th is always either up a string and over two frets or right below the string on the same fret. So we're going to i, flat minor, iii minor, flat minor. So we're going 1 to our flat 3. And those are our first two chords and those are our roots and you want to notate that down at home so as we go through the rest of the piece you can keep referencing back to that 'cause we're going to show you how to do Latin bass over that and walkthrough it."